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Brassica nigra plays an important role in global agriculture, horticulture, health and wellness aspects due to its culinary and medicinal values. B. nigra plant is also grown to obtain oil for industrial purposes as well as a nutritionally valued seed meal. The seed primarily contains oligosaccharides belonging to the raffinose family; amino acids; fatty acids such as palmitic, stearic, oleic, linoleic, linolenic, eicosenoic and erucic acids; vitamins; minerals (mostly iron); anti-nutritional factors (in particular, enzyme inhibitors); glucosinolates; and a wide range of phenolic compounds. B. nigra seeds have demonstrated to impart antidiabetic, anticonvulsant, antithrombotic, antibacterial, antifungal and antioxidant activities, as well as immunomodulatory and inflammatory effects. It is also recognized to provide protection against factors leading to gastrointestinal cancer. Given the presence of antioxidants in B. nigra seeds, it may be hypothesized as being useful for cardiac disorders as well. When it comes to safety aspects, B. nigra seeds contain storage proteins of the 2S albumin class and, hence, have been the cause food allergies which were mostly reported in Europe. During the last two decades, rapid developments have taken place in the agricultural breeding of B. nigra owing to the advancements in plant biology and biotechnology applications. These developments facilitated the adoption of B. nigra plant models which are of economic importance and commercial value.
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De Zoysa, H.K.S., Waisundara, V.Y. (2021). Mustard (Brassica nigra) Seed. In: Tanwar, B., Goyal, A. (eds) Oilseeds: Health Attributes and Food Applications. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4194-0_8
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